New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 eBook

NAVAL RECORD.

April 1—­German submarines sink British
steamer Seven Seas and French steamer Emma, thirty
men going down with the vessels; British squadron
shells Zeebrugge where Germans have established a submarine
base, by moonlight; Hamburg-American liner Macedonia,
which had been interned at Las Palmas, Canary Islands,
but recently escaped, has now eluded British cruisers
and sailed for South American waters.

April 2—­It is learned that Chile has made
representations to the British Government regarding
the sinking of the German cruiser Dresden; Chile says
she was blown up by her own crew in Chilean waters
after bombardment by British squadron, and when the
Chilean Government was on the point of interning her;
three British trawlers are sunk by the German submarine
U-10, whose Captain, the fishermen state, told them
he has “orders to sink everything”; Norwegian
sailing ship Nor is burned by a German submarine,
the submarine Captain giving the Nor’s Captain
a document saying she was destroyed for carrying contraband;
Dutch steamer Schieland is blown up off the English
coast, presumably by a mine; British steamer Lockwood
is sunk by a German submarine off Devonshire coast,
the crew escaping.

April 3—­Forts at entrance to the Gulf of
Smyrna are bombarded by allied fleet; French fishing
vessel is sunk by a German submarine, her crew escaping;
Berlin estimates state that from Aug. 1 to March 1
a tonnage of 437,879 in British merchant ships and
auxiliary cruisers has been destroyed.

April 4—­German submarine sinks British
steamer City of Bremen in the English Channel, four
of the crew being drowned; German submarine sinks
a Russian bark in the English Channel; three German
steamers are sunk by mines in the Baltic, 25 men being
drowned; Turkish armored cruiser Medjidieh is sunk
by a Russian mine; it is learned that an Austrian
steamer with 600 tons of ammunition aboard was blown
up by a mine in the Danube on March 30, 35 of the
crew being drowned; it is learned that the American
steamer Greenbriar, lost in the North Sea a few days
ago, was sunk by a mine.

April 5—­A Turkish squadron sinks two Russian
ships; Turkish batteries off Kum Kale sink an allied
mine sweeper; an Athens report says that the British
battleship Lord Nelson, recently stranded in the Dardanelles,
has been destroyed by the fire of the Turkish shore
guns; British trawler Agantha is sunk by a German
submarine off Longstone, the crew being subjected
to rifle fire from the submarine while taking to the
boats; German submarine U-31 sinks British steamer
Olivine and Russian bark Hermes, the crews being saved;
German Baltic fleet, returning from bombardment of
Libau, is cut off from its base by German mines, which
have gone adrift in large numbers because of a storm.

April 6—­A German submarine is entangled
in at net off Dover specially designed for the catching
of submarines; Stockholm reports that the Swedish
steamer England has been seized by the Germans in the
Baltic and taken to a German port.